Most recently, Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code depicted
Jesus as being married to Mary Magdalene.
It's interesting that Bernard of Clairvaux, the founder of the Templers Rule,
was devoted to the Magdalene and to the Black Madonna. Bernard commended the
knights to the 'Obedience of
Re rites included ritually kissing the anus of a cat:
I hope novices were told in advance what to expect when they joined rather
than finding out having spent decades working their way up the hierarchy.
Nobody really knows very little about the Cathars, since they were stamped out
by the French Christians in the year 1244. However, the Cathars were not
Manichaean, in the sense of an unbroken tradition going back to the 3rd century
Persian Mani. While they shared the notion of dualism, and
